<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><i style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; display: inline !important; "><div style="display: inline !important; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; display: inline !important; "><font size="4">A new extension bulletin from Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension aims to answer a question many beach-goers may be asking themselves this year.</font></div></div></div></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; ">"What is that sticking out of the sand?" by Christopher Maio and Greg Berman describes "new" discoveries exposed thanks to coastal storms and erosion. </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><font size="4">Cape Cod is subject to erosion when wind, waves, and currents erode the sand along the shoreline. Coastal storms have dramatically intensified that </font><span style="font-size: large; ">erosion, lowering beach elevation and eroding coastal banks and dunes. Residents and tourists who frequently visit the shore should understand that the shape of the beach changes from day to day as well as seasonally. At many locations, the scouring waves revealed a scene from the ancient past - the exposure of stumps "growing" out of the beach and a black smelly peat layer poling out through the beach sand and dunes. These recent storms have revealed ancient landscapes to a degree rarely seen.</span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; ">Free hard copies are available, while supplies last, by emailing </span><a href="mailto:seagrant@whoi.edu" style="font-size: large; ">seagrant@whoi.edu</a><span style="font-size: large; "> </span><span style="font-size: large; ">and also available as a free download at </span><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/seagrant" style="font-size: large; ">www.whoi.edu/seagrant</a><span style="font-size: large; "> </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: large; ">Please note that an interactive web map application supports this extension bulletin and is available at</span><span style="font-size: large; "> </span><a href="http://www.mappingcoastalma.com/" style="font-size: large; ">http://www.mappingcoastalma.com/</a></div></div></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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